- Vikki Ortiz Healy with the Tribune asks the hard-hitting questions: Is a “Happy Birthday” wish on Facebook a real greeting? Is it a substitute for a card? And is it a faux pas if you DON’T send a greeting to a friend? I’ve actually run into this with a couple of friends recently… I’m friends with them on Facebook, so I see most of the things that are going on in their lives, so I make less of an effort to actually contact them.
- Big Government: Michael Goldfarb with the Weekly Standard has a handy list of the 111 New federal Bureaucracies Created by the Pelosi Health Care Bill. My personal favorite is #107: Indian youth telemental health demonstration project.
- Ford was the only one of the big three automakers that didn’t take a bailout. So how is that working out for them? They earned about $1 billion in the third quarter. It was the first time that they were in the black since 2008.
- Another school nurse vaccinated a child without the parents permission. This time it ended up sending the kid to the hospital. Where undoubtedly they will end up contracting an illness worse than the one they were vaccinadated against.
- Remember when the Obama administration pulled the plug on our anti-missile shield in Poland, since Poland didn’t really need to worry about an attack from Russia. Now Russia is doing war games of a nuclear attack on Poland.
- As if we didn’t have enough problems with the swine flu, now the CDC is saying that contaminated beef may have killed two people. At this point is it safe to do anything anymore?
- People joke about their “crackberry” and their dependence on the internets, but these days internet addiction is serious business. How long could you go without the web? My guess is you’ve checked your email at least twice in the time that it took me to finish this blog post. Now that Cisco has upgraded to Firefox, and his web surfing has become that much more efficient, we should probably keep an eye on him.
- More tech stuff: These people want you to buy your 3 year old an iPhone. The idea being that they take to the technology quickly and learn valuable stuff about, well, everything in no time at all.
- Smoking nazi’s strike again: Couple sue neighbors to put an end to backyard smoking. It’s an epic battle between personal freedom and other people’s health.
- Conan might want to update his resume: Jay Leno says he’d have preferred to stay with “The Tonight Show” and would go back if NBC offered it to him.
- Why do people kiss? The latest theory is that it was to spread germs. Human beings were trying to build up their immunity, so they started swapping spit. They didn’t want to end up like the Martians in War of The Worlds, after all.
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Archive for November 3rd, 2009
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Keith Conrad
Radio producer, internet enthusiast, all around nice guy. Keith can talk your ear off on everything from NASA's latest plans to what the Cubs need to do to win the World Series.